NOTE:May 7th = Starting a brand new thread, and asking for the old one to be locked. Its getting too long, and out of hand.Plus, since Wheezy has just gone stable, mean old SID has just woken up with lots of updates and potential breakages.(OLD Thread for reference)viewtopic.php?f=198&t=70230

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LMDE = (Linux Mint Debian Edition) Breakages

I wanted to start this thread in hopes that the few of us who are using LMDE tracking the Debian “ SID” or "Experimental" repositories. Can have a place to post problems and fixes.--------------------------

libexttextcat-data needs to be updated for LibreOffice as libreoffice-core now depends on libexttextcat-2.0-0 rather than libexttextcat0, and libexttextcat-2.0-0 needs a matching version of libexttextcat-data. (I also ran into some issues with libgraphite2-2.0.0 conflicting with libgraphite2-3, another changed dependency of libreoffice-core, so if you run into trouble you may have to manually remove libgraphite2-2.0.0 so libgraphite2-3 can be installed.)

libexttextcat-data needs to be updated for LibreOffice as libreoffice-core now depends on libexttextcat-2.0-0 rather than libexttextcat0, and libexttextcat-2.0-0 needs a matching version of libexttextcat-data. (I also ran into some issues with libgraphite2-2.0.0 conflicting with libgraphite2-3, another changed dependency of libreoffice-core, so if you run into trouble you may have to manually remove libgraphite2-2.0.0 so libgraphite2-3 can be installed.)

Thanks karashata. I've resolved the libexttextcat-data/libreoffice issue by pulling the latest LibreOffice from experimental (solving all the other dependencies at the same time).

@gcp: I installed software-properties-gtk (and all of its dependencies) from Ubuntu Raring some time ago when it broke on my Experimental system, it's not a perfect solution but it works. The Mint maintainers will have to clean it up a little for LMDE with their next update pack, most likely.

I also don't see any issues with Nautilus thumbnail generation, but then I'm also running GNOME 3.8 (and Nautilus 3.8 ) from Experimental. It may be a good idea to update GNOME and its various components to version 3.8 if you haven't already, since they have been built to work with those packages now entering SID when they first showed up in Experimental.

EDIT: @wayne128: It would appear that LibreOffice has been updated and should now be available in SID, you should be able to install it from there now. (If you caught my previous message stating to install it from Experimental, don't bother now, it's older than the version recently added to SID.)

EDIT #2: Apparently the python-gi update that was mentioned earlier also broke software-properties-gtk from Ubuntu Raring, though it was fairly easily fixed by installing the slightly older python-gi package from Ubuntu Raring (version 3.8.0-2), then updating python3 and python3-minimal to version 3.3.0-3 from Experimental.

libselinux and libwayland0 currently held back on amd64 multiarch due to i386 lagging behind amd64, hopefully it will catch up shortly.

karashata wrote:EDIT: @wayne128: It would appear that LibreOffice has been updated and should now be available in SID, you should be able to install it from there now. (If you caught my previous message stating to install it from Experimental, don't bother now, it's older than the version recently added to SID.)

Hi karashata,

thanks for your message.

There is some interesting observation.As you knew from my post, when I d-u, the message said Libreoffice will be removed.

EDIT: I gaffed earlier, libwayland0 is held back due to libegl1-mesa and libegl1-mesa-drivers dependency issues with the newer version, not due to i386 lagging. libselinux:i386 has shown up so that update can be installed now on multiarch systems.

EDIT #2: python-gi from SID seems to work fine now with software-properties-gtk from Ubuntu Raring and python3 version 3.3.0-3, there's no need to install python-gi from Ubuntu Raring anymore to make it work, just in case anyone's wondering.

As of this morning and after an update can't open repositories dialogue in synaptic, it complains that the repos have changed and must be reloaded but even after reloading (no error messages either in synaptic or apt-get) nothing changes and it gives the same message. Any ideas on how to fix this?

PS - I didn't change anything in sources.list and it was working fine until now.

I'm not 100% sure, but I think the version of software-properties-gtk that LMDE currently ships doesn't work properly with a lot of the recent updates flooding into SID. I run on the Experimental repos myself and had to grab software-properties-gtk from Ubuntu Raring some time ago when updates in Experimental broke the version LMDE currently ships with, the version in Raring has been updated to work with a lot of the newer packages that were first showing up in Experimental, a lot of which are now being updated in SID, so perhaps grabbing software-properties-gtk (and all of its dependencies) from Raring might help you (and anyone else having issues with it).

For you (and anyone else who might want to consider it), here's a list of all of the packages you'll need to grab:

Hm. I doubt if that version is ready for a lot of the changes coming down the line in SID, it may be time to (temporarily) add Experimental to your repos list and update everything to GNOME 3.8. Most of the changes that seem to be happening in SID right now have been in Experimental for a while and most of the GNOME components have already been updated to use those newer packages. Alacarte is currently the only package I've had to pull from the Ubuntu GNOME 3 PPA because Debian's version is too far out-of-date for the newer versions of the gi repository, at least based on what I can figure...

I suspect GNOME 3.8 will probably make its way into SID soon, so you could potentially just wait it out, if you can put up with a few breakages here and there as they update everything else that GNOME 3.8 will depend on.